The active shooter alert was sent across Maine by mistake. Who hit send?

At 1:55 p.m. Friday afternoon, a man was shot multiple times on his motorcycle in Windham. The suspected gunman fled. Police quickly established a perimeter around neighboring towns.

Chief Kevin Schofield said his department requested a local emergency alert at 2:20 p.m., which was sent to nearby residents in Cumberland County at 2:58.

More than two hours later, at about 4:17, an emergency alert warning of a “gunman at large” was blasted to every phone in Maine. State police would later say that was a mistake.

It was not immediately clear on Friday who requested the alert or why it was sent statewide. Maine State Police Maj. Lucas Hare said at a press conference that there was “an error with the way (the alert) was entered into the system. It was not intentional,” but did not specify